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UPCOMING CONCERTS
JAMES MCMURTRY
November 6, 2015, 8:00 pm
James McMurtry spins stories with a poet's pen ("Long Island Sound") and a painter's precision ("She Lo
ves Me"). Proof: The acclaimed songwriter's new Complicated Game. McMurtry's first collection in six years spotlights a craftsman in absolutely peak form as he turns from political toward personal ("These Things I've Come to Know," "You Got to Me. Complicated Game delivers McMurtry's trademark s
tory songs time and again ("Copper Canteen," "Deaver's Crossing"), but the record brings a new (and certainly no less energetic) sonic approach. Simply put: McMurtry brings forth another new masterpiece.
Individual tickets:
Star Circle $50 (Rows A-H)
Main Floor $45 (Rows I-R)
Premiere Balcony $45 (Balcony Rows A&B)
Balcony $40 (Balcony Rows C-L)
PATTY GRIFFIN w/DARLINGSIDE
November 14, 2015, 8:00 pm
The first quiet piano notes of the title track of Patty Griffin's new album, Servant Of Love evoke a sense of mystery. "I want to live by your ocean/Moved by the waves/No one can see." Go further into this haunting, jazz-steeped meditation, and that sense turns into a spell. With lulling piano, fathoms-deep bowed bass and improvisational trumpet floating above like a swooping gull, Griffin conjures the call of the depths in literal and metaphorical terms ("words from the deep, calling to me...") and invites us on her odyssey to answer that call.
Very much in the traditions of American transcendental writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, and mystical poets like Rumi and Rainer Maria Rilke, Patty Griffin grounds her themes of love and mystery in the experience and rhythms of the everyday, the stuff of life. Servant Of Love takes on big ideas, but does so in the vernacular of folk tales, blues cants and jazz gestures. Griffin's characteristic expressive vocals-equal measures passion and poignancy-and her potent songwriting blur the lines between the personal, the spiritual and the political. These songs move and persuade while they dive deep.
Individual tickets:
Star Circle $60 (Rows A-H)
Main Floor $55 (Rows I-R)
Premiere Balcony $55 (Balcony Rows A&B)
Balcony $50 (Balcony Rows C-L)
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